The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-09
eILI NYE.s HOPEFUL.
He Embarks In the Newspaper Business
and Receives Some Parental Advice.

He Embarks In the NeWsPHPcF Dusa"oss
and Receives Some Parental ADVICE
My DEAR Son: Your first letter writ |
ten since you started your paper at New |
Bolony was received yesterday We felt
glad to hear that you had got located In |
a business for yourself, and it made
me feel proud to get a copy OF the paper
which YOU call the Retina l do not
know why you call it the Retina. Still,
the Bolony Retina sounds kind of full
some and didactic.
Retina always supposed was kind OF
medical term. and l would be just fool
enough if Istarted paper to call it the
Sciatica or the P0lypas at Work. It's
wonderful how people run to new names
these days, and plain man with
common-school education has to go
cropping along through the world the
best he can. presume that, with your
thorough and florid education, such
word as Retina don't stump You for
minute, but with me it's different. l am
a rough, Woodworking man and always
been busy all my life.
like the tone of your editorial piece
| on the inside of your paper which is en-
titled Salutatory. / like it where it goes
! on to say as follows:
1--WE shall strive in season and out OF
season to advocate the resources and
liabilities of New Bolony as health re-
sort and county seat. Our voice will
even be heard in clarion tones, putting
| its shoulder to the wheel of progress
and tramping on oppression with both
| feet.
1--WE shall send the Retind to every
quarter of the globe, SO that New Bolo-
nv, with its wealth of picturesque val
lev, hill and dale, together with its new
court house and health-giving atmos-
phere, will be known of wherever the
English language is spoke.
1T is true that the editor of this pa
per has just emerged from college and
is still young, but he has had some ex-
perience in writing for college paper,
and he knows what the needs and
wants of the people are. He is aware
that the class of readers who will pc
ruse the Retina will not be so refined
or cultivated, perhaps, as his college
readers were, but he will try to make
himself understood, and we think we
will be successful.
| 1--WE shall constantly improve the
Retina as growing business and pat
ronage may warrant, so that in few
years our readers will look back on this
first copy with ill-eoncealed mirth.
I'VE are already figuring on dark-blue
job press and rubber door-mat for the
office, bearing the legend Welcome. in
large, Gothic extended letters.
1--WE shall espouse the cause of no
party or faction for the present, pre-
ferrlng to remain neutral for the time
being, hopping on to the erroneous,
ever and anon, however, as circum-
stances may arise, which will seem to
call us on for word of reproof, admo-
milton or encouragement. We shall
not make any boasts or fill the air with
bombast at this time, but when hydra
headed wrong energies from its hole
the casual observer will see us knock
: seventeen distinct varieties of tar out
of said hydra-headed wrong, and those
who carefully observe our course while
conducting the Retina will notice that
there are no flies on it.
i I'VE have quite number OF our bes'
essays and orations prepared while VIZ
were attending school and college
which will appear from time to time in
these columns. They are carefully and
exhaustively written, and entirel,
cover the ground. Among these WI
may name the following titles:
, 'sThe American Indian-His Glorious Past en'
His Opaque Future
! 1.-THE Care and Discipline OF Children from al
bipartisan Standpoint
, | 1.-THE Disagreeabie Results of Crfme-Necessit
for Exercise Among the Labor1ng
Glasses.
"Demosthenes as an OfHand Speaker.
ssHow to Reclaim Giddy Parents-Where 1
Your Parent To-Night!
| "Criticisms on the Present Imperfect Plan Q
Salvation.
'sDuty of Wiyes-What Constitutes . Goo
> "George Washington and the Misery He Ell
tailed Upon the Youth of America BY
\ Telling the Truth and Afterward
His Country.
"All these essays are well written AM
would be highly ornamental to an,
first-class magazine in the land, but W
are here to give satisfaction in our ne'
field, and the best we have ever write
is none too good for the people Of NeN
aolony. We aim to please.
Q IN closing we state that the Rctin
3 has come to stay. Weuse this last teri
with the permission Of the man VIII
made it.
1--WE expect our new navy-blue jobbe
in few weeks, AMI little boys in tow
who wish to see how q newspaper
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